Our brothers and sisters to the south, the Hobart Sporting Car Club, are once again putting on the Baskerville Historics this year, and we’d like to share the details with you and encourage you to get involved.

The event will be held over the 4th and 5th of October, 2014, at Baskerville Raceway and bring together a lovely collection of historic racing and sports cars at a wonderful circuit. Head to the Hobart Sporting Car Club’s website here for more info, and check out the video below to get a feel for the event.

The first video takes you on board around Phillip Island from the Phillip Island Classic earlier in the year for some very hot laps, and the second changes gears for a wet race at our previous event, the HSRCA’s Historic Winter at Sydney Motorsport Park.

It’s time to settle down for some traditional post-race-meeting reminiscing with our first photo galleries from the weekend and an excellent video from Matt Hart to tell the tale of our Winter Historics at Sydney Motor Sport Park .

We were greeted with beautiful and warm winter sunshine on Saturday morning, which set the mood for a warm and lighthearted weekend of historic racing, tinkering with cars and spending some quality time with quality people.

There were a few stop and starts on Sunday, but overall the racing was clean and entertaining and drivers did an excellent job of keeping all four wheels on the black stuff. It’s always a thrill to see and hear these lovely old machines out doing what they do best, so thanks for getting out there with us!

As always the feature Group S endurance races were great fun – closely competed right through to the end and an energetic, collaborative atmosphere.

The pits and paddock, always full of beautiful machines and buddies old and new, were a delight to explore. If you’re new to historic racing (or if you’ve been doing it your whole life), make sure to spend some time wandering, checking out the cars and chatting to the drivers. It’s a friendly and fun atmosphere and a great opportunity to get to know some historic sports and racing cars and the people who love them.

A huge and heartfelt ‘THANK YOU!’ to all of the organisers, entrants, spectators and especially the volunteers who make all of this possible. We are extremely grateful for your tireless and selfless support of historic racing and the HSRCA.

It’s the people, friendships and camaraderie that really make these events, so thank you all for getting involved and putting on a great weekend. We can’t wait for Wakefield Park in September!

The first of our photo galleries from the weekend are online and you can check them out on our ‘Photo Gallery‘ page here, or by clicking the handy links below.

We’ll have a lot more great content online soon so make sure to stay tuned to www.hsrca.com. You can also head to our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/hsrca to keep up to date with what’s going on and get to know a great group of people.

The Phillip Island Classic is held by the VHRR in March every year and brings together around 500 historic racing and sports cars for a massive weekend of motorsport at the classic Phillip Island circuit.

Let’s head back to the track for a look at the historic motorsport action at our recent Wakefield Park All Historic Summer event.

Enjoy these photos from Peter Schell, which focus on the action out on the circuit and do an excellent job of capturing the broad range of historic machinery present at historic racing events. Click this link to head to the full gallery.

Let’s go on-board for a driver’s-eye perspective of the historic racing at our recent Wakefield Park All Historic Summer event.

Enjoy the sweet sounds of Paul Armstrong’s 1959 Jewitt Holden GT, John Medley’s tremendous car control in the rain, Paul Hunter’s creative camera angles, some good old fashioned Group N action with Rod Wallace and more!

Thanks to Paul Armstrong, Paul Hunter, John Medley and Rod Wallace for sharing their races, and Wes Dayton for his filming!

We’ve just over two weeks until it’s time for the road trip to Wakefield Park and our first weekend of historic racing for the year. This time out we’ll be running group M & O feature events, along with events for all of our other historic racing categories. We’re excited to get back out to the track and are looking forward to catching up with everyone!

We were greeted by a typical Goulburn spring, which produced some exciting and challenging conditions for the drivers, but did little to dissuade them from putting on a weekend of clean and exciting historic racing. We held an Aussie Specials feature event, which was a tremendous success, brought out some lovely and unique cars and kept them very busy out on the circuit. All in all, a fun and friendly weekend!

This event has now concluded, please head to our ‘Entry Forms‘ page for up-to-date information.

Entry packs for our upcoming All Historic Summer Wakefield Park event are on their way to your inboxes or mailboxes and should arrive very soon. Additionally, the entry form, supplementary regulations (read them), and entry letter are now available for download on the website.

Hit the following links to check out what we got up to during our previous visit to Wakefield Park:

Today’s videos put you in the driver’s seat of a 1949 Supercharged MG TC Special, one of the Aussie Specials that ran in our feature event, and a 1960 Cooper T52 FJ. The MG is driven by Syd Reinhardt and is running in Regularity in this video. The Cooper video puts you right in the action for the start of a JKL race and is steered by Mike Gosbell. Hit the HD button for the best effect!

Thanks to Syd Reinhardt and Mike Gosbell for letting me film their adventures!

These on-board videos get you in the hot seat of a 1969 Brabham BT28 for a few laps of a Group M and O race, as well as a 1984 Tiga SC84 for a little Q & R action. It was more than a little nippy and slippery that weekend, so well done to everyone for putting on some quick and clean racing in tricky conditions!

Our Spring Historics event will feature an Australian Special theme. We will be running feature races for pre-war and post-war genuine Australian racing specials up to 1961, exclusive regularities for the above groups for cars without C of Ds, lunchtime parades for all eligible cars and a display area for non-competing cars, along with events for our usual selection of beautiful historic sports and racing cars and their drivers.

That’s a lot of historic racing to look forward to!

Until then, jump on board an Aussie Special in this on-board footage of a supercharged 1949 MG Special lapping a damp and slippery Phillip Island. For more video of Aussie Specials in action, hit this link to go on-board with Percy Hunter in a 1947 MG Special.

What better way to do so than to jump on board for a classic dice with Ed Holly in his lovely 1968 Brabham BT21C. Enjoy this footage from race four for M & O sports and racing cars at June’s Eastern Creek Winter Historics event, and click this link for more on-board historics.

We’ll be updating the site frequently over the coming weeks to make sure that you have all the information that you need to get out and have fun racing, watching the action on the track, strolling through the pits & paddock, and enjoying good friends at Wakefield Park, so come back often and keep in touch. Hit the following links for our coverage of the event thus far:

This video features a three-way dice that is contested throughout the entirety of Group N Race One at 2010’s Spring Wakefield Park Historics. Handling and power duke it out with good clean driving on display from all. Brilliant racing.

Our journey on-board with historic racing continues with this video from the HSRCA’s All Historic Winter event at Eastern Creek. Hop on board with Percy Hunter as he dices with the J K L field in this beautiful 1947 MG Special.

We’ve covered our recent All Historic Winter event from the paddock and the track-side, but now it’s time to really get into the thick of things. Let’s hop in the cockpit and go on-board for some historic races!

My favourite shots when watching any kind of motorsport are those that come from on-board cameras – especially if there’s a nice angle on some fancy footwork! Our members have been putting together some excellent on-board footage, so get ready for a whole new perspective on historic motorsport with this collection of on-board videos from the HSRCA’s All Historic Winter. Thanks go to our enthusiastic members who have uploaded them!

This funky video from Michel Scutts features some great shots from the pits & paddock during our All Historic Winter Eastern Creek event. Sit back, hit play, and enjoy! Thanks to Michel for sharing this with us!

Filmed over the weekend, ‘For Old Time’s Sake’ does a fantastic job of capturing the many details and moments that take place over a weekend of historic motorsport, and is well worth a look. Click play on the video embedded above, or click this link to head to Vimeo and enjoy the film there.

We love being able to promote and share your work on the club website, so please send me an email at seth@hsrca.com, or drop by our Facebook community at www.facebook.com/HSRCA, and let us know if you would like to contribute.

Our previous trip to Eastern Creek was for the mighty Tasman Revival. Four days of foot-to-the-floor historic motorsport celebrating the Tasman Series and the cars, and people, that made it. The event was a great success and brought together brilliant drivers, motorsport legends, friends, a wonderful collection of historic sports and racing cars, and the fans that love them.

Click the following links for the daily wrap-ups from each day of the event:

Looking to the future, we have a very special event planned for September, when we bring back the successful Australian Specials feature for out next weekend at Wakefield Park. This event will feature races for pre-war and post-war genuine Australian racing specials up to 1961, and much more. Click this link for more information, or contact J K L registrar Dick Willis. Please spread the word, as there are many eligible cars and drivers out there that we may not know about, and who would enjoy this special event.

We have reached June, and are now only three weeks out from our Eastern Creek All Historic Winter race meeting. To help pass the few remaining weeks until we’re out racing historics again, take a look at Dick Willis’ latest JKL newsletter.

This month’s entry features a detailed and interesting look at the 2011 Historic Winton event, along with all that’s going on in the world of pre-1930 to 1960 vintage, post-vintage and historic sports and racing cars.

The newsletter has gone out to members in their chosen formats, and can be downloaded digitally here:

Filming your own on-board track day footage is easier than ever, and there are some fantastic little video cameras out there that are not only affordable, but brilliant. Many even feature lovely wide-angle lenses, to enhance the sense of speed. Not that that would be necessary, of course.

We are more than happy for you to install and run these cameras, but want to make sure that you do so in a way that is safe not only for yourselves, but for those with whom you share the track. So please download and fill in this permit to carry an in-car video camera, and bring it along when you want to run your camera at an event. The Director of Scrutineering Supervisor and Clerk of the Course, or their respective nominees, will then inspect the mount during scrutineering.

Coming Up: 18th March Social Meeting - Pat Burke

Forty years ago this February, Warwick Brown became the first Australian to win the Tasman Series. Patron and team owner Pat Burke was behind this effort, and will present many previously unseen photos at our social meeting on Wednesday the 18th of March.

Denistone Sports Club at 59 Chatham Road, West Ryde, from 8PM - but why not join us before for dinner and dinks?

Coming Up: HSRCA Ringwood Park Hillclimb March 22nd, 2015

On Sunday the 22nd of March, 2015, we’re holding a new hillclimb event for HSRCA members, family and friends at Ringwood Park Hillclimb. We’re always looking for new opportunities for our community to enjoy their competition cars and each other’s company, so we’d like to invite you to come along, give it a go and let us know what you think!